Bakery company Vaasan & Vaasan Oy and ICT services company Fujitsu Services Oy have renewed their IT infrastructure outsourcing agreement for the next three years.

All in all more than Vaasan & Vaasan 400 desktops in 15 towns across Finland are managed by the Patja service. The renewed agreement expands it to cover printing management, server capacity as service, Mobile Professional and lifecycle management for mobile devices. In addition, the company's e-mail and application platform, Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server (MOSS), will be provided as service.

The amount of baked bread is based on orders and thus varies from day to day. Customer orders arrive during the day and determine the operation the next morning. In such an environment, flawless operation of IT infrastructure is of extreme importance.

"IT has contributed in our ability improve our delivery reliability to a good level and to keep it there. However, the process is vulnerable and easily disturbed if the IT becomes flawed," says Director Vesa Moisio of Vaasan & Vaasan.

"As a whole, our six-year collaboration with Fujitsu has been a positive experience. Having the development and monitoring activities taken care by a partner, we've been able to focus particularly on resource planning and developing our repository system," Moisio continues.

The Patja service incorporates the management and monitoring of application servers, and demand-based server capacity service. Vesa Moisio mentions scalability as the biggest advantage of buying server capacity.

"We have embarked on projects where servers located at Fujitsu's data centre serve as application platforms for our sites in Sweden and the Baltic countries. Scalability in these projects is a very valuable quality to us," he says.

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About Fujitsu Services Oy

Fujitsu Services Oy is the leading ICT services supplier in Finland. With its cutting edge ICT service models Patja and Sohva, the company facilitates the day-to-day operations of its customers in Finland and abroad by assuming the overall responsibility for the support services, operation and development of the customers' IT infrastructure and operational applications. Fujitsu's other areas of expertise include mobile work services, electronic services as well as Microsoft, SAP and EMC Documentum based solutions.The Finland based ICT services company Fujitsu's net sales for the financial year that ended in March 2009 amounted to 395 million euros. The company employs nearly 2,700 people in Finland and the Baltic countries. Fujitsu Finland is part of the global Fujitsu Group, one of the largest ICT services providers on a global scale. Our specialist network comprises 175,000 employees in 70 countries. Patja and Sohva are registered trademarks of Fujitsu Services Oy. Read more at: fi.fujitsu.com, www.net-lehti.com.